Thanks for the screenshots, they seem to demonstrate your issue (although it's hard to see what exactly has been screeshot in the first image, and which part of it is the SVG and which is the margin that isn't right).Now we'd also need the SVG and the html (aka example files) to comment any further.

If you have the font ready, and want to change its perspective, you can also use the perspective/envelope path effect for it (plus the extension, after doing Path > Object to path to flatten the path effect.) 1. Type text 2. Keep it selected, do Path > Union 3. Path > Path effects... 4. + 5. Select ...

@GAngus : that was Tim Sheridan (https://inkscape.org/en/~tghs), with help from suv :) This is Bryce: https://inkscape.org/en/~bryce - he usually publishes the source code releases and handles lots of organizational (legal/financial/infrastructure) stuff, and he also tries to get us organized ;-) (w...

For a color-managed workflow and brochures, Scribus is the way to go, if you want to use free software. It all depends on what exactly you want. You may need to combine multiple tools for best results: Gimp for raster images and photos, Inkscape for vector art, Scribus for typesetting and color mana...

There is a bug in Inkscape 0.92.2 that causes a crash when dragging on nodes, or on paths very close to a node. It will be fixed in Inkscape 0.92.3. If you frequently run into that crash and need a fix right away, you can use a development version, e.g. currently, the latest one is available here: h...